AIBU to ask you all what makes you HAPPY? it's Friday, lets get some love in here!

[BritFish]

cheesy post title i know

but its been a fuggin' awful week, and i want to hear some good stuff for a change.

things that make me happy:

making my kids/husband laugh.

a nice cold glass of wine.

tuna pasta bake. mmm.

an unexpected text.

planning my imaginary trip to Australia.

a good hug.

the simple stuff, you know!

YANBU!!!!!

this sunshine is making me HAPPY!!

my teenagers enthusiasm for life is making me SMILE

watching the boys out of the window playing football...and GETTING ON is making me happy

oh and its friday,its the weekend

and i've just rekindled an old friendship and she's coming over tomorrow!!!

The spring, the sun, the flowers!
Fresh blood on Mumsnet.
Me kiddies and me man.
Your post.

Copious amount of Snickers and Haagen Dazs Cookies and Cream
My husband
My DS
Imagining myself as a qualified lawyer
My best friend
Sunshine

(not necessarily in that order, mind ...)

DD (17 months) snuggling up to me on the sofa

Watching movies, drinking bourbon and laughing with DP.

A perfectly cooked ribeye

The Sopranos

A pot of tea and my own homemade cakes on the table

Sitting round my mum and dad's kitchen table in Ireland laughing and chatting with all my aunties/uncles/cousins

Planning my real trip backpacking on my own next year

Dave Lamb on Come Dine With Me

Having my back tickled

Harry Hill

Trashy crime novels

America's Next Top Model

Eating tapas by the sea in Spain

Ooh nice OP.

Watching DH with the kids
Delicious food
The sunshine/feeling spring is here
Feeling like I've achieved something tangible IYSWIM rather than "just" looking after the kids (am on mat leave and that one can be tough )

Sunshine and a swim in the warm mediterranean kids
skiing with my children
a gossip with friend (over g&t and a cigarette)
watching/re watching the wire
unexpected phone calls from friends
reading in the bath

in the mediterranean sea, not kids!

Best Friend arriving tonight, haven't seen her since November
House nearly tidy (not quite, but getting there)
Lunch with friends tomorrow
Little kicks inside me

getting my dc home after 2 days with exdh and showering them and getting them lovely and clean and smelling gorgeous

Clean bedlinen, going to bed naked and feeling lovely 100% cotton next to my skin
Scrabble
making nice dinner/going out for meals especially curry
trashy chicklit
having a laugh with workmates
security of good rship with dp and sharing things
family visiting next weekend
finally, after yrs of struggling, now having enough money (just) to do things we want, within reason
walking by the sea
and - tbh - mumsnet! (was shocked to find myself gutted when site was down earlier)

i forgot to mention sunshine! and sweet and sour chinese chicken. and diet coke.

Vodka and coke ..

Sunshine definately
My gorgeous DSs (when they are not playing up!)
Having a proper, uncensored belly laughing session with my friends
A lie in.
Chips with curry sauce.

and peppa pig....and george

Sunshine, definitely and above all others.

My DC walking hand in hand down the road not squabbling

..but after reading your OP I really really want a nice cold glass of wine.

Lovely OP. Thank you.

Ooh nice thread.

DH bringing me a hot cross bun with jam in bed this morning and whispering to his unborn child that if I ate any more pickled onion monster munch it was to call him immediately!

My delicious 6-week-old baby boy, who is just beginning to smile.

Aaaahhhhhh...

A sunny windowsill heaving under little pots of compost with the seedlings just poking through.

A pint of proper beer in a pub garden on a summer day and laughing like a drain with your oldest friends.

My DH just came home unexpectedly early from work.

Hearing my 14 week old DS giggle. He is fighting sleep atm so keeping that in mind is quite difficult

sunshine
beach
empty laundry basket
good wine
birds tweeting
dds pj-ed & asleep in bed

snuggling on the sofa with DH and DD and watching telly all cosy together

a bottle of wine and a nice chickflick on the telly (and the remote hidden)

hearing the taps run and knowing it won't be ME doing the washing up

driving with music belting out and all of us singing along

nice thread, OP!!!

My diet coke crush..

Life,

My lovely, lovely DC's

Painting,

Music,

Hugs...

MN,

People being kind, just because....

Where I live,

Walking,

Mu house being tidy,

My friends,

Waking up at some odd hour in the morning and knowing I can go back to sleep...

To be continued.....

Caramello cocktails by the pool on Daydream Island.

The lady in the call centre who was really nice and confirmed that I have an outstanding bill paid off!!!!

Making people in Indian call centres laugh!